Friday, April 27, 2012

How have your perceptions of disability and inclusion changed since completing the independent study on inclusive education and the field experience in Belize?

I dont think that my perceptions have changed, I feel that I am able to handle students with disabilities in my classroom better.  I feel that I have more tricks in my toolbox that will allow me to better help students.  I have learned during this experience that if students with disabilities are left alone and not helped they can become a distraction to others, and they can even develop anger issues from their frustration.  
I have a student in one of my classes that does not do very well, and I believe it is because he can not read.  When I walk around the room checking work and answering questions when I get to him he just asks if I will do his work for him.  He has asked me to do his work a handful of times and I wonder if that works in his other classes.  Are some of these students who do have some time of disability in the classroom being pushed through because they are having other people, even possibly teachers, do their work for them? 
I have always believed that if you push students to their full potential they will be successful, but I have really seen that here.  There are so many students here that dont have disabilities but they still need differentiated instruction and they will show what they can do if we just push them to do so.  

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